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Seattle Magazine ran a long story about what they called "Kitchen Squatters" this month. In what I would take to be an attempt at wit, Karen Johnson, the article's author repeats this term "Kitchen Squatters". If I said nothing else about it, you might think I was talking about people who adversely possess…
“You Invent. We Fund it.” That is the promise of the Knight News Challenge , the innovation contest that “aims to advance the future of news by funding new ways to digitally inform communities.” This year, the Knight Foundation is giving away as much as $5 million for fantastic ideas that use open-source technology to distribute news in the public interest, in one of four categories.
On Wednesday evening I went to Town Hall Seattle to see Alex Steffen of Worldchanging talk about carbon neutral cities, and I guess, specifically Seattle and our future. In 2009 after we had local elections Steffen also spoke on this topic at Town Hall, for two nights. Both nights the house was basically sold…
Yesterday was rough. I am not usually an electoral optimist — well maybe I actually am, having worked for many underdogs I held out hope even after returns started to come in showing by candidate slipping behind — but in the last few weeks I really could not believe that the Republican party energized by…
CiviCRM offers a function to check for duplicate contacts either manually, or on user submission. Duplicate matching is very useful for preventing duplicate records from being created when you allow anonymous users to register for events, or make donations. Without it, ever time an anonymous user did one of those two things, you would get a new record for them in the database.
I'm excited to head up to Vancouver in a few weeks where I'll be attending the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit, now it its second year. I've been to Vancouver a few times, but don't feel like I have a really…
NTEN ‘s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is a pretty amazing event for nonprofit staff people, consultants and thought leaders working in that sector. The NTC is growing at a pretty strong clip, last year’s conference had over 1300 technologists and nonprofit staffers. The 2011 NTC, which promises to be even bigger will be held in Washington DC, March 17-19.
I’m really excited to announce that I will be running two CiviCRM user trainings in September and October. Back in March and April I was involved in two similar trainings, one with Dave Greenberg from CiviCRM at the NTC, and the other during the workshop day before DrupalCon in San Francisco. The feedback from both trainings was really positive.
We often hear the question, “What email service provider do you recommend?” from clients, prospective clients, or even just friends. For those using CiviCRM we recommend using the built in CiviMail in conjunction with an SMTP service like CiviSMTP to handle deliverability issues. But for those not using CiviCRM the answer is always a tricky one to arrive upon because there are so many different variables to consider: volume, pricing, east of use, reporting, and on and on.
A question recently came up on our internal team list. One of our team members was looking for recommendations on where to move her money . She was currently banking with Chase and was disturbed by learning of the connection between Chase and BP . This being just one reason of many to move your money from a big bank like Chase, she decided it was time. Many of us at CivicActions bank with local banks or credit unions and the responses to her query brought many stories of others who had either recently or long been banking with credit unions.